{"id":13167,"date":"2012-02-27T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:21:12","slug":"nyt-agrees-with-tim-obama-flunks-deficit-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13167\/nyt-agrees-with-tim-obama-flunks-deficit-test\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Agrees with Tim: Obama Flunks Deficit Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Tim\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1323-february-23-2009-obama-promised-to-cut-the-deficit-by-half\" target=\"_blank\">excellent column<\/a> explaining how President Barack Obama explicitly failed to live up to his promise to \u201ccut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term\u201d the New York Times published today another damning indictment of America\u2019s worst CEO.\u00a0 In it, the Times faults the President for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/obamas-unacknowledged-debt-to-bowles-simpson-plan.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">failing to exhibit any kind of leadership<\/a> with the Bowles-Simpson deficit plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the downsides for Mr. Obama have become clear. His partisan turn undercuts a central promise of his 2008 campaign, to rise above the rancor. And by neither embracing Bowles-Simpson nor explaining his objections and quickly offering an alternative, Mr. Obama arguably failed to show leadership on perhaps the country\u2019s biggest problem. This month, in a New York Times\/CBS News poll, 59 percent of Americans disapproved of his handling of the deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Tim\u2019s excellent column explaining how President Barack Obama explicitly failed to live up to his promise to \u201ccut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term\u201d the New York Times published today another damning indictment of America\u2019s worst CEO.\u00a0 In it, the Times faults the President for failing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,59,19],"class_list":["post-13167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-deficit","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}